Computer scientist who says she was pushed out of her job at Google in December 2020 has marked the 1-year anniversary of her ouster with a new research institute aiming to support the creation of ethical AI.
A year later, DAIR has found financial support from major backers. The MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Kapor Center have provided a cumulative $3.7 million in grants, Gebru said.
Of how she thinks about the relationship between future DAIR research and the actions of large tech companies like Microsoft or Google, Gebru said, “DAIR isn’t doing research for these companies but in the public interest.” Gebru and Sefala plan to continue to expand the research and hope to partner with policymakers to “help us advocate for policies that desegregate neighborhoods,” the paper noted.“Just having that knowledge and experience of coming from a township, firstly I was able to better coordinate how to label those neighborhoods, and when the models were getting it wrong, it was very easy for me to go in and see why,” she said.